{"id":1603,"date":"2021-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/2021\/07\/22\/god-will-put-the-pieces-together\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T06:00:00","slug":"god-will-put-the-pieces-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/2021\/07\/22\/god-will-put-the-pieces-together\/","title":{"rendered":"God Will Fit the Pieces Together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Have you ever been completely blindsided by something?<\/strong>\u00a0Most of us have.\u00a0I got some intense news this week that one of my best friends was moving but I had no idea they were even thinking about that. And now they&#8217;re leaving in just a few days! It felt super sudden and heartbreaking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I was really upset and I didn&#8217;t understand why my friend had left me out of the process. But while I was praying God reminded me that literally,\u00a0<strong>nothing is a surprise to Him<\/strong>. He knows literally everything. And the other thing He reminded me of was\u00a0<strong>He doesn&#8217;t take care of one person and leave the other one hanging<\/strong>.\u00a0So while He took care of my friend, putting all the pieces together, wrapping everything up nicely in a beautiful red bow, He didn&#8217;t just forget about me.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>And He hasn&#8217;t forgotten about you either.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes it feels like it though.\u00a0But if you just hang\u00a0on, just keep praying and\u00a0trusting, you&#8217;ll see how He was also putting all the pieces together for you, wrapping them up in a big red bow, and building something even better than you could have hoped for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blessings,<br>Kristen James<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong><em>Psalm 9:10 \u201cThose who know your name trust you because you have not abandoned any who seek you, Lord.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been completely blindsided by something?\u00a0Most of us have.\u00a0I got some intense news this week that one of my best friends was moving but I had no idea&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archived"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 19:07:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftingstar.com\/star1015denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}